Sarah Wambaugh

Sarah Wambaugh (born March 6, 1882, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 12, 1955, Cambridge, Mass.) was an American political scientist who was recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on the subject of plebiscites. Wambaugh graduated from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, in 1902. She remained at the college as an assistant until 1906 while pursuing advanced studies in history and government. For a decade thereafter she worked with the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston...